India, Jan. 21 -- In 2022, Deepinder Goyal handed a lifeline of sorts to Albinder Dhindsa when Zomato acquired a struggling Blinkit for Rs.4,500 crore. Today, he has handed him over the reins of a Rs.2.5-lakh-crore empire that he built from scratch.

On Wednesday, Eternal Ltd. (formerly Zomato) said that Goyal would step down as Group CEO to become vice chairman, handing the daily operations of India's largest quick-commerce company to Dhindsa.

The move signals a definitive shift: the "startup" phase of Zomato is over. The "scale-up" era, defined by the operational rigour Dhindsa perfected at Blinkit, has begun.

A graduate of IIT Delhi and Columbia Business School, Dhindsa actually cut his teeth at Zomato in its early years, serving as ...